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Unable to enact change through the existing political institutions of their authoritarian regimes, and consistently repressed by state security forces (the mukhabarat ), activists in Egypt and Syria relied on street activism to challenge their conditions. This study analyzes the…

For democracy to take hold in Nigeria, Nigerian citizens must gain the confidence and ability to effectively articulate their needs in the political arena. They must develop the skills necessary to participate in policymaking that impacts their lives and they must learn to expec…

This dissertation is an engaged critique of peacebuilding discourses and approaches in South Sudan with regard to women's exclusion and resulting lack of representation in the peacebuilding arena. The study investigates how women's exclusion in the peacebuilding process is histo…

Red Lives is a side-by-side social and intellectual biography of Claudia Jones, Emma Tenayuca, and Ah Quon McElrath, three working-class women who came-of-age during the Great Depression, and whose lifelong commitments to grassroots organizing and radical politics emerged from t…